07 Aug 1908
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Newspaper
Grand Traverse Herald
Location
Traverse City, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
1
An extended housekeeping column blends moral uplift with domestic advice. It emphasizes small acts of kindness, modernizing farm homes, and pairing household ease with farm life. Also includes recipes for croquettes and mint treats and practical kitchen tips.
A fragmentary verse by Francesca Alexander extols a life of sunshine and divine sweetness found in common things. The lines praise God for guiding life like bees gathering honey and flowers strewn across the earth, reflecting a devotional tone and poetic imagery.
A retired editor reflects on aging women on farms and in towns, noting two sides to every issue and urging thoughtful reform. He cites a farm magazine piece praising mechanization and contrasts old and new labor, pondering what feels off in modern domestic life and work.
Practical home guide shows croquette making from cold meats and vegetables. Includes tips for chicken and sweetbread varieties, using nuts or rice, shaping, breading, and frying briefly. Details on seasoning carrots and turnips with mace and cloves, and the need to rest the mixture before shaping. Banana croquettes are noted with banana preparation and assembly.
Mint lovers learn to use spearmint fresh in desserts soups and sauces. Recipes include mint sherbet mint sauce for lamb and game mint chutney for cold meats apple mint jelly and mint sandwiches. Instructions detail steeping juicing and folding into jelly and sherbet bases with mint juice yielding a vivid green tint.
A compact catalog of English style recipes adapted for American cooks. It lists Butter Cakes Jenny Lind Cakes Transparent Gingerbread Water Gingerbread with quantities in pounds and ounces, plus fruit and frozen desserts like Orange Sherbet Mixed Fruit Sorbet Frozen Oranges Frozen Macaroons Pineapple Sherbet and Coffee Mousse with step by step mixing, freezing and serving notes.
Practical tips from The Sewing Room covering improvised mattress needles from umbrella ribs, dust cloths from torn tops, and reusing Russian suit jackets into blouses. Advice emphasizes careful sewing, preserving furniture, and extending garments with drawstrings and hems for growing children.
A description notes that removing the hem and facing yields a fresh look. The blouse paired with bloomer trousers forms an attractive suit, and the ensemble can be reused in another season.
The article promotes using fresh buttermilk nightly to soften skin and remove freckles or tan. It describes bathing the face with buttermilk, wiping, and washing in the morning. A recipe combines lemon juice borax and sugar, aged a few days, for use.
Advice on caring for aluminum kitchenware notes its easy cleaning and nonreaction with milk. Avoid strong alkalis or washing soda. use kerosene and Bon Ami for initial dulling and brightening, then hot water. Describes two weights and two finishes, chiquered and satin, and that aluminum utensils are attractive enough to keep in the kitchen.
Simple fare for economical meals using stale bread and cheese. Layer buttered bread with broken cheese, season, and bake. A milk egg custard pours over the layers to feed six. A meat pie variant uses cold steak or roast with onion and a stale bread dressing, baked until firm.
A writer describes a compact kitchen layout featuring a long wooden sink counter, a wall deep cupboard with glass doors facing the dining room, enclosed drawers for utensils, and AV drawers connecting both rooms. A three‑foot built‑in cupboard creates a short hallway, with a swing door entry and a pass‑through window for passing dishes to be washed.
A brief survey notes various folk charms used by mothers to protect infants. Roumania uses red rib bones tied near ankles, Ireland hides hair in the cradle, HollafG places bread and garlic in the cot, Welsh mothers rely on a knife or tongs, and Vosges peasants associate a new moon birth with a strong tongue.
A promotional discussion asserts Peruna's ingredients are valuable for chronic catarrh and that combining remedies from multiple medical traditions under Dr. Hartman provides effective, uniform relief. It claims broad prevalence of catarrh and argues Peruna offers straightforward access to pure, fairly priced treatment with clearly listed active constituents.
A verse notes how a child’s fate is shaped by the day of birth. Monday to Sunday lines describe traits from grace and wisdom to hardship, while Christmas day yields goodness and cheer.
Practical hints on cooking techniques. Pour grease before it burns. Use a broad dish for cream to rise. Do not wash cloths in hot soup. Boil strongly flavored vegetables in cold water before using hot water. Keep bread crumbs dry with cheesecloth or paper. Bread crumbs beat cracker crumbs for frying and croquettes crust.
A vintage cooking note describes extracting lemon or orange peel flavor by salting and boiling peels then cooking in a sugar syrup until tender to flavor cakes. It also gives a recipe for Surprise Rolls using biscuit dough filled with minced chicken and butter, baked hot and served cold with stuffed olives.
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